The King and the Adulteress
Subtitle: A Psychoanalytic and Literary Reinterpretation of Madame Bovary and King Lear
Contributors: Colin Rice (Contributor); Aina Pavolini Taylor (Translator)
Edition: Rev edition
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780822320753
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Shakespeare studies & criticism; French Novel And Short Story; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; European - French; Shakespeare; Flaubert, Gustave; King Lear; Literary Studies/American Lite; Psychology; Shakespeare, William; 1564-1616; 1821-1880; 1821-1880.; Flaubert, Gustave,; Lear, King (Legendary character), in literature; Madame Bovary; Psychoanalysis and literature; Shakespeare, William,
Description: The King and the Adulteress brings together two essays that propose radically revisionary readings of two of the most important literary works in the Western canon, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Shakespeare's King Lear.

In offering a new understanding of a deeply sadomasochistic relationship and of an authoritarian pathology, psychoanalyst Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca combines psychoanalysis with literary studies to challenge the conventional judgments of readers and the stereotyped interpretations of literary critics to these masterpieces.

Approaching the characters in Bovary and Lear from both an analytic and a critical viewpoint, Speziale-Bagliacca reinterprets many issues and events that involve archetypal figures of modern literary mythology.